10
25
60
90
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Nuclear Power Engineering MCQs
__________ moderator is used in a fast breeder reactor.
Graphite
Heavy water
Beryllium
No
✅ The correct answer is option D.
The decay product of tritium (a beta emitter) is
lithium
helium
deuterium
hydrogen
✅ The correct answer is option B.
The emission of an a-particle causes the resultant nucleus to have
more atomic weight and less atomic number.
less atomic weight and less atomic number.
less atomic weight and more atomic number.
none of these.
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Final product of uranium extraction plant at Jadugoda (Bihar) is
uranium
uranium oxide
uranium carbide
magnesium diuranate
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Thorium can be converted into U-233 in a __________ reactor.
liquid metal cooled
fast breeder
thermal
swimming pool
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Percentage of the heavy water in ordi water is around
0.015
7.54
0.71
32.97
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Gas cooling as compared to water cooling of nuclear reactors
can not attain a high temperature.
is more efficient as gas has a higher specific heat.
can produce only saturated steam for feeding to power turbine.
none of these.
✅ The correct answer is option D.
The ratio of neutrons to protons of an element having a mass number and atomic number of 80 and 40 respectively is
1
0.5
2
4
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Thorium-232 (a fertile material) on absorption of a neutron gets converted into __________ , which is a fissile material.
thorium-233
uranium-235
uranium-233
plutonium-239
✅ The correct answer is option C.